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Diomede Pull #2
3579 Michael 6 http://www.daz3d.com/michael-6
4901 Sherwood Hunter Outfit for Genesis 2 Male(s) http://www.daz3d.com/sherwood-hunter-outfit-for-genesis-2-male-s
2449 Girl 6 Diva Poses http://www.daz3d.com/girl6-diva-poses
4194 Pin Up Poses for V5 http://www.daz3d.com/pin-up-poses-for-v5
1419 DH Childrens Furniture http://www.daz3d.com/dream-home-childrens-furniture
2246 FunLand PoserCF http://www.daz3d.com/funland
4248 Poker Face DS http://www.daz3d.com/poker-face
4774 Science Fiction Pistols http://www.daz3d.com/science-fiction-pistols
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Okay, pull #1:
8879 Skylys bundle (V4+Gen2) (Aeon Soul), DNA
6873 Odessa Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s) (AprilYSH), DAZ
5979 MDD The Elven Realm for V4.2 (Maddelirium), RR
7160 Pavilion of Montchanin (Jack Tomalin), DAZ
709 Asrai (HMG Designs), DAZ
7955 RM Verde (rebelmommy), RR
9984 The Pit (coflek-gnorg), RR
9770 The Bone Collector (Propschick, SWAM, Sveva), RR
LB: 10117 Throne of the Skeleton King (Jack Tomalin), DAZ
LB: 4554 Hookah (pappy411), RR
Surprisingly coherent... right up until that hookah. Lol.
Gopherus pull #2
Toon Generations Family Pack 1
Scarlett
Rama Drums Add On
Lisa Botanicals Pansy
Fantasy Camp III
Revelrie Big Top
Leyton Hair G2F and G3F
Cleave
Fortune Teller 1930 V4 (LB)
Generation 4 Statues (LB)
Twister TT (LB)
Fantasy Castle 2011 Castle Keep 2 (LB)
Tag: Totte#1 - Image 1
Also used:
Apocalyptic plant outdoor set
IG Iray Lilith 6
La Cage
V4 + A Caithlyn + Kerkyra Hair
Subsurface Workshop
LAHM 1.6t
Shaders:
PBS Shaders Vol 1
PBS Shaders Vol 2
UHT Hair Shaders
Daily Cloth Shader
Human Shaders
The Intergalactic Bureaux of Animal Cruelty (TIBAC)
TIBAC Agent 47, had travelled back in time to the 1930s, deep in the state of Louisiana, USA, after an anonumeous tip about a Polar Bear kept in a cage in the hot and humid land outside the city New Orleans. Finding and freeing the bear was a simple task, but she now had to persue the perpetrators, the evil does, which she suspected were Grandorells, an intergalactic race who feed energy from animal cruelty.
Well, I finally spent a little time on doing this - so here goes.
TAG:MelanieL#1
The Gamers
Part 1: Let the Games Begin
Riva and Garen had been regular gamers since their school days: first Ludo and Monopoly, then Chess and Mah Jong, then Dungeons and Dragons and lately all the latest video games. A friend had just presented Garen with a box which he promised contained The Ultimate Gaming Experience: he would never want to play another game.
Garen brought it to Riva's apartment the next evening. It didn't look particularly special, but they thought they might as well try it. Riva rolled the dice first: 5 and 3. Garen threw 4 and 17 ... what? 17?!? He had picked up the dice to check them, when all at once they felt a rush of cold air and an odd floating feeling.
Pull Items Used: FWSA Riva, Unshaven Bundle for Genesis, Christmas Accessories, Board Games
Also Used:
Riva - Cinnia Hair, Casual Jean and T-Shirt (with Slacking textures)
Garen - Garen for Scott 6, Fraser Hair, Yakuza OUtfit
Living Room - Classic Deco, Artifical Christmas Tree n' Poses, CityScapes Backdrops
Part 2: Another Roll of the Dice
They found themselves in a strange room, strangely dressed. They began to explore their surroundings, but suddenly the door flew open and they were under attack from all sides! Garen tried to fend them off, but saw that the odds were impossible. Then he realised that he still had the dice in his hand. He threw them and at once felt that rush of cold air again.
Draw Items Used: Valiant for M4, Unshaven Bundle, Mage Tower Accessory Pack 3, Serpentine, Jade Renegade Outfit for G2M, CP Winter Circlet
Also Used:
Riva - Fire Lilly Outfit for G2F
Garen - Fire Guard Outfit for G2M, Aegis
Sorceress - Riven, Sporty Braid
Attacker 1 - Jared for M7, Jonas Hair, Fantasy Weapons Collection 2
Attacker 2 - Gray for Gianni 7, Colin Hair
Attacker 3 - Yasuo for Lee 6
Room - Mage Tower
Part 3: Endgame
Garen was back in Riva's apartment, seemingly safe and sound. But then he looked down and saw Riva. She still wore a strange circlet on her brow and her skin was pale and cold. He realised that his last dice throw had been too late for her.
His "friend" had been right: he would never want to play another game.
Pull Items Used: FWSA Riva, Unshaven Bundle, Christmas Accessories, Board Games, CP Winter Circlet
Also Used: (same items as Part 1)
Melanie, I feel a strange likness to "the gamers" by dead gentlemen productions, I love it!
MelanieL, I've never heard of the story Totte referenced, but I love your story, too. In fact all the stories so far have been fantastic and full of imagination. This is turning out to be one of those RRRRs to live on in legend, I think!
(Luci45, every time I look at your story, I think of my mother. She used to watch As the World Turns every day that she could. When she went back to work, she couldn't keep up with it anymore. This was before VCRs. One day I was sick and had to stay home from school. She told me to watch As the World Turns and tell he what happened. I took careful notes and reported back. Of course I knew nothing of the characters or the story line. It turns out, that was a significant day, with secrets revealed. My mother was thrilled to hear my report. Thanks for the happy memory.)
My own fault, leaving it so long to review the posts in this contest - so I've just taken the posts in order then grouped my comments per story:
@Gopherus #1-A - what a brilliant beginning to the contest - lovely high-action render. And the story is really well told - it certainly made me laugh.
2 - another amazing render: what a crowd! I love the text with it's "find out in part three - The Wrap Up" in this context.
3 - tee hee! Is that the origin of swaddling clothes then? Well done on completing a fine and funny story.
@Saphirewild #1-1 - great start! I love the brightness and there's so much going on.
2 - really want to know whether they (a) survive the trip, (b) find the treasure.
@luci45 #1-A - Oh dear, sounds like a tricky time for all. Lovely render.
B - That must have taken you quite a while, to do all those renders-within-renders?
C - ha ha! That really captures the joy (?) of reality TV. Very nicely done altogether. Trust you to be the first to finish a whole set.
Ken OBanion - hey, I just had to go look at that Home Page image - didn't know you played guitar?
#1-1 - I never got into Scooby Doo (wrong age) so this is an education for me. Nice start - can't wait to see what's coming...
@barbult #1-1 - And Muck is back! I love your Muck stories. He looks really pained by all that bright thinking though, even though he seems to be borrowing ideas from another business? Great idea.
2 - I've heard of courier services like that! (Nice render too - love the colours)
3 - Great end to the story - and another nice render - I love the hover-delivery idea.
@diomede #1-1 - I've heard of a bull in a china shop, but never a buffalo in a basement! Great idea.
2 - I hope that West Park crane is up to all that weight! Nice poses.
3 - ooh, Michael's a bit cavalier with the life of the poor buffalo! Lucky it all turned out well. Congrats on finishing your first story.
@Totte #1-1 - oh, poor polar bear, I hope TIBAC Agent 47 can sort him out soon. Shaping up to be an interesting story.
And thanks for you comment on mine - but I had to Google the Dead Gentlemen, I'd never come across that.
And my Pull #2:
3519 = Sophisticate Outfit for Genesis 3 Male(s) (23713)
1415 = The Study Expansion Pack (2382)
2346 = Predatron Common Nettles (19838)
1379 = The Cage (9169)
1525 = Making Faces for Aiko 5 (15772)
806 = Haunted Mansion Exp 1 (2700)
2355 = Affable for The Ballroom Exp 1 (16943)
1909 = Speed Render Stages (18016)
LB - 2589 = Dynamic 50s Cocktail for DAZ Studio (12149)
Edit to correct some typos and fix Ken OB's name - that blank is annoying, I keep triggering notices to some poor guy called "Ken" in the forum - wonder if he ever follows one and finds this contest?
Thanks, barbult. I think you're right, this is shaping up to be a great contest.
I didn't realise Luci's "As the World Turns" was a real thing (being UK, we don't get most of these US series, only Cop shows and SciFi)
Yup, it was on TV for 54 years!!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_the_World_Turns
Thanks Melanie for your comments
@Totte #1a Great start to the story. Keeping a polar bear in the hot and humid bayous of louisiana does seem cruel but probably practical for aliens who want to lick the energized sweat of desperation from it s body. Nice one!
@Melanie L #1abc Really great adventure! And that fight scene in frame two is really energetic and well done! Dungeon masters usually have 20 sided dice so rolling a 17 isn t unusual and probably what it would take for the saving throw that extricated him. They should have taken a healer, paladin or a high level mage with them. And not to give up because she appears dead. He could still have a resurrection spell cast upon her or the next adventure could be into the depths of hades to rescue her spirit. I never saw the gamers but it looks really action filled. I did see The thirteenth floor where gaming was at the root of a murder mystery.
I never watched As the World Turns but it was always there in the daytime line up. I did watch Dark Shadows, a soap of Vampires and Werewolves. It was after school and in the time slot opposite Howdy Doody (i think).
Thanks Gopherus. As you might have guessed I have never been a gamer in my life - to me a die has six sides and that's that! I'm at the Ludo and Monopoly end of things (or at least I was as a child) as I'm hopeless at chess and only played Mah Jong for real once (I don't count the version on a PC which I sometimes play to pass the time waiting for downloads on my very variable internet connection). I've known a few people who said they played D&D but that's about as far as I got with that!
(Edit to correct my increasingly erratic typing!)
@Melanie - It's never to late to start ;-) Great story really.
Tag: Totte#1 image 2
Also used:
Liquid Pack
Army Truck 1930
Shaders:
PBS Shaders vol 1
Subsurface Workshop
Iray Leather Factory
The Intergalactic Bureaux of Animal Cruelty (TIBAC)
After following the fresh tracks left by two of the Carnival's trucks through a portal, Agent 47 found them abandoned at a ruin north of Rome, Italy, in the year 1956. These Grandorells are tricky beasts, they use time-space worm holes to travel both in space and time, but Agent 47 had done her homework, she knew how to track them, and now she was close. The Grandorellean slime on one of the trucks was still fresh.
Looking forward to the TIBAC conclusion. I hope Agent 47 wins.
Tag: Totte #1 part 3
Also used:
Cobra King
Rigged Water
Shaders:
PBS Shaders Vol 2
PC MEtals
PC Gemstones
The Intergalactic Bureaux of Animal Cruelty (TIBAC)
TIBAC Agent 47 kept her pace and she soon found another time-space portal. She ended up in the small south German town of Augsburg, where the international chess championships of 2023 was currenlty held. In front of the old castle ruins, a huge set of chess had been constructed, that showed the current state of the final game. She spotted the two Grandorells, they had cloaked themselves to look like chess pieces. She moved in carefully, the rushed and fired her icer guns, which petrified the Grandorells, while she shouted Checkmate!
@Totte #1 Ah! Wizards chess!! Great tracking and spectacular finale shootout. Well done!
Thanks Gopherus! And thanks everyone else for the comments ;-)
Been a little too busy to read the thread and comment on all, I will have time next weekend for a run through I hope.
@Totte #1 2/3 - ah, what a mighty shootout! Nice ending to the story (and that chess set is looking really nice too)
Ken O'Banion #1:
1A - Looks promising, I wonder how Velma will evolve without her trusted friends and in a new company.
diomede #1:
1C - Good to see the buffallo didn't die in the process.
Gopherus #1:
1C - Ok, so now that we now there is marriage after life, the question remains - how do they multiply themselves if they're dead? Or is the small mummy adopted and will always remain small like this?
Totte #1:
1A - The bear needs to be resqued for sure. He looks so sad inside.
1B - I'm sure the slime is fresh. But I can't get this teletubbie tune out of my head: "How spilled the tubbie-pudding?" (play on repeat, because every teletubbie will ask this question at least once and so will the voice-over)
1C - Love the chess! Love it! Wonderfully used DOF and colors. The white and black as contrasting with the warmer foreground really enhance each other. I wish I could drop it into my DA chess collection. Checkmate indeed.
MelanieL #1:
1A - Nice special effect, love how the blue magic repeats their shape. Very mysterious. Somehow I was expecting some Jumanji effects in this one, like Elephants appearing out of nothing.
1B - And then we have a typical fantasy setting. Wonderful magic again, and the poses are very realistic. Not Jumanji, but trouble in the same proportions. Too bad the reaction was too slow.
1C - And then it ends very sadly... The guy who advised the game must have been either a sadist, a mad scientist (wanting to sell his invention) or a very good sword fighter.
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Finally got around to make my pull:
23 Basic Hair
69 Flink's grass 3
160 Jai Hair
605 The bard outfit for G3M
427 MFD for Genesis
18 Around the campfire
334 RW Hanging Pod Chair
336 Lady Darkness for G3F
Story Pull #2
#5732 The Mad Chemistry Lab Bundle (#19174) {
(#19171) The Mad Chemistry Lab - Chemistry Set
(#19172) The Mad Chemistry Lab - Furnishings
(#19173) The Mad Chemistry Lab - Room
}
#5230 Space Jump Gate (Rendo)
#4272 Post-Nuke for Xena's Urban Warrior for M4 (Rendo)
#5300 Stalker Girl Pants for Genesis (#14680)
#3659 Monstrous Touch Weapons Pack (#17302)
#1984 Fantasy Castle Grounds (#13327)
#3751 Muelsfell Asylum Walls (#19095)
#475 Bar Maid for Genesis 2 Female(s) (#20994)
LB: #3458 Medieval Inn Corridor (#23717)
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That's a lot of environments, a lot!!!
Oh, it's only 5 out of 8. I had 4 out of 5 last time (if you don't count the bundle as environment).
Gopherus #2A
Toon Generations Family Pack 1 Scarlett Rama Drums Add On Lisa Botanicals Pansy Fantasy Camp III Revelrie Big Top Leyton Hair G2F and G3F Cleave Fortune Teller 1930 V4 (LB) Generation 4 Statues (LB) Twister TT (LB) Fantasy Castle 2011 Castle Keep 2 (LB)
Garden Music
Part One – The Birthday Present
It all started when some dastardly person gave Princess Scarlet a trumpet for her birthday. She felt obligated to master the instrument, even realizing that it would take at least 6 years. Every day would find her practicing in the garden. And she was really, REALLY bad. The very stones would weep at the notes that came out of that instrument. Her sister Leyton knew that Scarlet ordinarily would listen to no one. But still she had an idea.
Gopherus #2B
Toon Generations Family Pack 1 Scarlett Rama Drums Add On Lisa Botanicals Pansy Fantasy Camp III Revelrie Big Top Leyton Hair G2F and G3F Cleave Fortune Teller 1930 V4 (LB) Generation 4 Statues (LB) Twister TT (LB) Fantasy Castle 2011 Castle Keep 2 (LB)
Garden Music
Part Two – Psychic Hotline
There was a person that Scarlet would listen to. It was Madame Ugarte from the Psychic Hotline. Anything Ugarte said she followed to the letter. Now if Leyton could convice Madame Ugarte to talk Scarlet into abandoning the trumpet, then all would be peaceful again. And Ugarte would do anything for a price.
Gopherus #2C
Toon Generations Family Pack 1 Scarlett Rama Drums Add On Lisa Botanicals Pansy Fantasy Camp III Revelrie Big Top Leyton Hair G2F and G3F Cleave Fortune Teller 1930 V4 (LB) Generation 4 Statues (LB) Twister TT (LB) Fantasy Castle 2011 Castle Keep 2 (LB)
Garden Music
Part Three – Mission Accomplished?
It worked! Madame Ugarte convinced Scarlet to give up the trumpet. Unfortunately....
Gopherus #2 - Great story and renders! I love love the posing and expressions - the statue guy is hilarious.
Totte #1 - So cool! I love the action and that first render is beautiful.
MelanieL - #1 Excellent story but so sad. The perils of gaming. I wouldn't reallyknow, as I am also not a gamer. I probably would have become addicted.
LOL, barbult, I can see you taking notes and reporting to your mother. That is so funny! My mother watched some of the soaps too and before that my grandmother used to listen to some of the same ones on the radio before TV. (Yeah, I know, I'm old.) I never liked any of them. I agree there have been some really great stories so far.
Thanks, MelanieL.